In January of next year, at least 26,000 primary school teachers will be promoted by being deployed to junior schools.
For the purpose of assigning P1 instructors with a variety of diplomas and degrees to grade nine, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has created lists from its database for each county.
Prior to document verification and subsequent posting at the sub-county level, TSC is presently gathering more teacher data from Heads of Institutions (HOIs).
In an excel template TSC want primary school heads to provide the teachers KCSE mean grade, specialization e.g. BED ARTS,BED Primary option , BED SCIENCE, BED ECDE, BED SNE, Dip in education, Dip SNE, Dip ECDE as well as two teaching subjects with mean grade for those with secondary option.
Listed for deployment are also senior, deputy and headteachers. Currently TSC is facing staffing crisis in junior schools.
A plan to recruit 18,000 junior school intern teachers is underway and will be done soon.
There are serious teacher shortage in grade seven and eight and the cornered TSC has no option but to turn to P1 teachers to address the looming crisis ahead of grade 9 roll out next year.
TSC has lowered the requirements to teach in junior school with teachers possessing degree in primary option, ECDE and SNE included for deployment.
Previously teachers were required to have degree in secondary option with C+ in KCSE as well as C+ in the two teaching subjects for deployment to junior school.
Below is a memo that was released by TSC to guide the process of data collection for teachers listed for deployment.
INTERNAL MEMO
REQUEST FOR DATA ON SERVING PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS WITH BACHELOR’S AND DIPLOMA DEGREES
The Directorate is conducting an assessment to determine the number of primary school teachers currently serving with the requisite Bachelor’s and Diploma degrees.
Please provide the data in terms of numbers, segregated by County and categorized into the following groups: –
l) Holders of the required Bachelors and Diploma certificates with a minimum mean grade of C+ at KCSE and a minimum of C+ in each of the two teaching subjects [or equivalent).
Holders of the required Bachelor’s and Diploma certificates with a minimum mean grade of C+ at KCSE and a minimum of C plain in each of the two teaching subjects (or equivalent).
Holders of required Bachelor’s and Diploma degrees with a minimum mean grade of C plain at KCSE and a minimum of C+ in each of the two teaching subjects (or equivalent).
Holders of the required Bachelor’s and Diploma degrees with a minimum mean grade of C plain at KCSE and a minimum of C plain in each of the two teaching subjects (or its equivalent).
Holders of the required Bachelor’s and Diploma degrees with a minimum mean grade of C- (minus) and below with two teaching subjects without regard to the grades in the teaching subjects.
Other categories (if any, specify)
Kindly submit the data as shown in the attached format:
The purpose of this memo is to request for submission of the data
DR. MUGWUKU NTHAMBURI F. AFTRA
DIRECTOR (TEACHER PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT)